Health | Pier Marton

Truth and Reconciliation

by Pier Marton | Jan 13, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Film, Health, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Racism, Women

Long Night’s Journey into Day, the website (with excerpts) for this most important film and its distributor, California Newsreel. The BBC report. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Peace Rabbi Menachem Froman Ill with Cancer

by Pier Marton | Jan 6, 2011 | Death, Health, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics, Wars

Menachem Froman and Ibrahim Abulhawa at Froman’s daughter’s wedding. From Richard Silverstein’s Tikkun Olam website. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Live ECG Monitoring

by Pier Marton | Jan 5, 2011 | Death, Health, iPhone

$100 app/case to see and send your live ECG Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Beyond the Visible: A Vital Film (w. review)

by Pier Marton | Dec 28, 2010 | Antisemitism, Art, Care, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, Health, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, KeyFilm, Media, Middle-East, Photo, Politics, Racism, Review, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, Women

Yael Hersonski’s An Unfinished Film Had posted a trailer back in August, but this film requires much more attention. My short review: One of the sharpest media literacy lesson to be found: the set-up and staging stink… we are indeed all actors in a...

Gross Happiness Index

by Pier Marton | Dec 24, 2010 | Care, Eco, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Politics, Wars

I remember Bhutan being most concerned about its GHI, not its GDP (below). Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Superchef + Superman = a Mensch

by Pier Marton | Dec 20, 2010 | Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Eco, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Now, Politics, Travel

From 5 star hotel chef to feeding the hungry off the street, now in his 9th year. The Akshaya Trust Website with its mission: Committed care for helpless, forsaken, mentally ill, old, sick, roadside destitute living and dying in the streets of Madurai – by...